How my mailbox was almost hijacked – tips to secure yours

So after attending to my unread email last night I woke up this early morning and as usual my busy mailbox was filled with much more emails than I attended to last night.
So I had to quickly check out what’s new there in with my yahoo mail app in my smartphone.
Next, my attention was dragged by a mail from Yahoo Notification with the subject – “Account Restrictions Pending, Fix Now”
See screenshot

Then I tapped the blue link which says “verify to continue receiving messages” and it directed me here (screenshot below)

When I reached the webpage in screenshot above, in my usual way I checked the Web address and immediately I discovered that
– The web address wasn’t from yahoo
– The Web page was an exact clone of the yahoo website
– The website was aimed at hijacking email addresses and associated passwords
So I had to quickly exit the browser.
Just so you too don’t fall victim of hijacked accounts, these tips might be useful to you.
Tips:
1. Always check the Web address of any website you visit.
2. Only input your login details when the URL is from your email provider (Yahoo, Google, Microsoft etc.) – to be sure, you’d see a padlock or key and https:// before the web address.

Never login in 3rd party sites or apps that are not recommended or created by your account provider.
For instance, 1 Google account is associated with all Google apps like Google contact, Google play, Google games etc. – it’s safe when you login from such apps.